Sofia Iaffa Nylén PhD student
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Name and title: Sofia Iaffa NylénPhD student
Workplace: Department of Culture and Aesthetics Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Frescativägen 22B-26
Postal address Institutionen för kultur och estetik106 91 Stockholm
About me
PhD student since September 2017. My research interests are 20th Century literature, mainly Latin American or Spanish, and, more broadly, trauma literatures and erotic literature.
Literature I: Literature, society, and politics ,7,5 ECTS
I have also launched, designed as well as taught the course Postcolonial Literary Studies, 7,5 ECTS (LVGN14)
In my PhD thesis, I study the three Latin American writers Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Gloria Gervitz and how they elaborate traumatic experience in their works. I argue that all three of them have a distinct style with which they form their literary languages of trauma: they resort to the erotic. Studying the fusions, transitions, and relations between trauma and the erotic in these writers offers important insights into the originality of their work. My study shows that although Valenzuela, Peri Rossi, and Gervitz share this style of blending a traumatic and an erotic language, they nevertheless turn to wholly different literary strategies and temporal models in their oeuvres in order to achieve it. Studying the temporal presentation of trauma in each writer - a synchronic approach in Valenzuela, a diachronic in Peri Rossi, and a circular/intra-generational in Gervitz - offers new perspectives on the diversity of styles and techniques with which erotic languages of trauma appear in 20th Century Hispanic literature. On the whole, the thesis contributes with new insights about these three authors and their work, but also more generally about literary trauma theory and erotic literatures.
Supervisors
Frida Beckman, Anna Jörngården
Interests
Hispanic literature, trauma theory, erotic literature, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, Gloria Gervitz
Conferences
“A form of madness after the madness: Intra-Generational Trauma and Postmemory in Gloria Gervitz’ Migraciones”, Postgraduate Conference on Jewish Studies in the Nordic Countries, Lund University, September 2024
"Activity and Passivity in Luisa Valenzuela’s Literature", 2023 AHRC International Conference at Oxford University, September 2023
"La recepción de Gloria Gervitz en los países nórdicos", Conference on Latin American Literary and Cultural studies in the Nordic countries, Göteborgs universitet, November 2021
"Nomadic Texts and How to Read Them: A Study of the Readings of Gloria Gervitz' Migraciones", Revolutions in Reading, Stockholm University, June 2021
"Vida cotidiana y subjetividad en los cuentos de Luisa Valenzuela", International conference on Literature and Exile, Tarragona (Spain), October 2019
"Hushåll och fängelser - gestalningar av vardagen i Argentinsk litteratur skriven under diktaturen 1976-83", CEMFOR, Uppsala University, May 2019
"‘I don’t know, she says that she leaves because of poverty’: Political exile forming and disrupting identities in Cristina Feijóo’s Cómo en las Películas (1995)", Transnational Performativities: Performing Identities in a Global Context (symposium), Stockholm, May 2018
"Förlisning/exiltillstånd", translation of poems by Cristina Peri Rossi, in Glänta 1:2022
"Passivity and Nomadism in the Literature of Luisa Valenzuela", in Feminism as World Literature, ed. Robin Truth Goodman, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
"Prologue" in Mullvadarna (Los Topos, 2008) by Félix Bruzzone, transl. Linnea Rutström, Prosak förlag, 2021
"Som på film", a translation of the short story "Como en las películas" (1995) by Cristina Feijóo in Karavan 2:2018
"Nödvändigheten att vittna och viljan att tala om annat", Karavan 2:2018
“'My Insides Were Like a House': A Study of Body and Space in Mercè Rodoreda’s La Placa del Diamant", MA (Stockholm University 2016)
"Talande motstånd - tystnad, talan och våld i Griselda Gambaros Ganarse la muerte (1976)", Ordkonst 1:2014